modality

(noun)

Also known as stimulus modality, it is one feature of a complex stimulus; for example, temperature, pressure, sound, or taste.

Related Terms

Examples of modality in the following topics:

  • Sensory Modalities

    • A sensory modality (also called a stimulus modality) is an aspect of a stimulus or what is perceived after a stimulus.
    • A sensory modality (also called a stimulus modality) is an aspect of a stimulus or what is perceived after a stimulus.
    • The sensory modality for vision is light.
    • The sensory modality for audition is sound.
    • Integration of all sensory modalities occurs when multimodal neurons receive sensory information that overlaps with different modalities.

  • Vestibulocochlear (VIII) Nerve

    • The vestibulocochlear nerve (also known as the auditory vestibular nerve and cranial nerve VIII) has axons that carry the modalities of hearing and equilibrium.
    • The vestibulocochlear nerve has axons that carry the modalities of hearing and equilibrium.

  • Heart Failure

    • This modality uses ultrasound to determine the stroke volume (SV, the amount of blood in the heart that exits the ventricles with each beat), the end-diastolic volume (EDV, the total amount of blood at the end of diastole), and the SV in proportion to the EDV, a value known as the ejection fraction (EF).
    • Treatments include lifestyle and pharmacological modalities.

  • Cutaneous Sensation

    • The somatosensory system is composed of the receptors and processing centers to produce the sensory modalities, such as touch and pain.

  • Sensory Areas

    • The five commonly recognized sensory modalities, including sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell, are processed as follows:

  • Classification of Receptors by Stimulus

    • A sensory receptor's adequate stimulus is the stimulus modality for which it possesses the adequate sensory transduction apparatus.

  • Classification of Receptors by Location

  • Prostate Disorders

    • Chronic non-bacterial prostatitis or male chronic pelvic pain syndrome (category III), which comprises about 95% of prostatitis diagnoses, is treated by a large variety of modalities including alpha blockers, phytotherapy, physical therapy, psychotherapy, antihistamines, anxiolytics, nerve modulators, surgery, and other treatments.

  • Polyps in the Colon

    • If an adenomatous polyp is found with sigmoidoscopy or if a polyp is found with any other diagnostic modality, the patient must undergo colonoscopy for removal of the polyp(s).

  • Shin Splint Syndrome

    • Therapy option includes physical therapy modalities such as ultrasound, whirlpool baths, phonophoresis, augmented soft tissue mobilization, electrical stimulation, and unweighted ambulation.